This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled MIPS: End spinlocks with .insn to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mips-end-spinlocks-with-.insn.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4b5347a24a0f2d3272032c120664b484478455de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:50:24 +0000 Subject: MIPS: End spinlocks with .insn From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 4b5347a24a0f2d3272032c120664b484478455de upstream. When building for microMIPS we need to ensure that the assembler always knows that there is code at the target of a branch or jump. Recent toolchains will fail to link a microMIPS kernel when this isn't the case due to what it thinks is a branch to non-microMIPS code. mips-mti-linux-gnu-ld kernel/built-in.o: .spinlock.text+0x2fc: Unsupported branch between ISA modes. mips-mti-linux-gnu-ld final link failed: Bad value This is due to inline assembly labels in spinlock.h not being followed by an instruction mnemonic, either due to a .subsection pseudo-op or the end of the inline asm block. Fix this with a .insn direction after such labels. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15325/ Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/include/asm/spinlock.h | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/spinlock.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/spinlock.h @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static inline void arch_spin_lock(arch_s " andi %[ticket], %[ticket], 0xffff \n" " bne %[ticket], %[my_ticket], 4f \n" " subu %[ticket], %[my_ticket], %[ticket] \n" - "2: \n" + "2: .insn \n" " .subsection 2 \n" "4: andi %[ticket], %[ticket], 0xffff \n" " sll %[ticket], 5 \n" @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static inline unsigned int arch_spin_try " sc %[ticket], %[ticket_ptr] \n" " beqz %[ticket], 1b \n" " li %[ticket], 1 \n" - "2: \n" + "2: .insn \n" " .subsection 2 \n" "3: b 2b \n" " li %[ticket], 0 \n" @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ static inline int arch_read_trylock(arch " .set reorder \n" __WEAK_LLSC_MB " li %2, 1 \n" - "2: \n" + "2: .insn \n" : "=" GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM() (rw->lock), "=&r" (tmp), "=&r" (ret) : GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM() (rw->lock) : "memory"); @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static inline int arch_write_trylock(arc " lui %1, 0x8000 \n" " sc %1, %0 \n" " li %2, 1 \n" - "2: \n" + "2: .insn \n" : "=" GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM() (rw->lock), "=&r" (tmp), "=&r" (ret) : GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM() (rw->lock) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/mips-end-spinlocks-with-.insn.patch queue-4.4/mips-force-o32-fp64-support-on-32bit-mips64r6-kernels.patch